National Lottery: Brass Bands

Jeff Ennis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been given to brass bands from national lottery funds in each of the last five years.

Margaret Hodge: The big lottery fund has been able to supply the following figures for the value of relevant grants across the UK in the last five years, including grants made under the Awards for All joint scheme:
	
		
			   Total value of grants (£) 
			 2003-04 144,293 
			 2004-05 81,314 
			 2005-06 151,542 
			 2006-07 176,572 
			 2007-08 109,663 
			 Total 663,204 
		
	
	Arts Council England has been able to supply the following figures for lottery funding it has provided in the last five years for activities or projects that involve brass and silver bands. Arts Council England state that these figures have been prepared using a more sophisticated classification system than previously used. This system has been introduced to allow the Arts Council to more accurately classify projects that involve a number of different art forms or activities.
	
		
			  £ 
			   2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  Total 
			 Activities or projects that involve brass or silver bands to some extent 39,315 78,958 72,214 21,890 39,972 252,349 
			 Activities or projects that predominantly or wholly involve brass or silver bands 35,860 60,521 23,687 67,410 13,930 201,408 
			 Total 75,175 139,479 95,901 89,300 53,902 453,757 
		
	
	'Some extent', is defined as funded activity or project classified as 25 per cent. or 50 per cent. relating to brass or silver bands. 'Predominantly or wholly', is defined as funded activity classified as 75 per cent. or 100 per cent. relating to brass or silver bands.
	In addition youth music (which distributes lottery funds on behalf of the Arts Council) has provided the following financial support to the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain:
	
		
			  National youth brass band of Great Britain (£) 
			 2003-04 100,000 
			 2004-05 110,000 
			 2005-06 120,000 
			 2006-07 120,000 
			 2007-08 123,000 
			 Total 573,000